Mom Finds Snake In Crib With Baby
A Long Island animal shelter is a temporary home for a 1-foot-long snake that a mother found coiled on her 7-month-old daughter's leg as the baby slept in a crib.
Cari Abatemarco of upstate Troy says she was visiting family in Brentwood last week when her baby's cries woke her one night. She tells Newsday that she found a snake wrapped around her daughter's leg.
Abatemarco says she lifted her daughter and the snake fell off. A relative removed the snake from the crib and placed it in a bucket until animal control officers arrived.
The reptile has been identified as a California king, a non-venomous snake that's not indigenous to the region.
Abatemarco says her family doesn't keep snakes as pets. Officials say they don't know where the snake came from.
© 2009 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Cari Abatemarco of upstate Troy says she was visiting family in Brentwood last week when her baby's cries woke her one night. She tells Newsday that she found a snake wrapped around her daughter's leg.
Abatemarco says she lifted her daughter and the snake fell off. A relative removed the snake from the crib and placed it in a bucket until animal control officers arrived.
The reptile has been identified as a California king, a non-venomous snake that's not indigenous to the region.
Abatemarco says her family doesn't keep snakes as pets. Officials say they don't know where the snake came from.
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Posted by rational_1 at 09:16 AM : Jun 10, 2008
Hmm, non poisonous snakes don''t have venom--but they still have teeth--danger or not, the snake could have bitten ergo --harmed the baby and was crying for some reason. Either way--wrong place to get warm = dead snake. Take the pieces to the pet store to feed to their rats.
They dropped the snake in a bucket of water. Sorry snake lovers--if it had been me, no animal control--just a chopped, minced snake to become bird food. I''m surprised the mom''s instincts were not to kill whatever "harmed" her child or was perceived as a physical threat. Must be a PETA person. I''d have chopped that snake up and threw it out in hopes the other snakes would get the hint. LOL
The California King, at one foot, is a baby also. It was probably trying to get warm. Even if it had been around the baby''s neck, it couldn''t have hurt it.
just lucky the snake was little, but i wonder if it was trying to stay warm or was trying to constrict the baby.... yeesh.
poor family.. scary stuff.
newsjunky5 funny stuff
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Or maybe they would have just wigged-out.
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No no. While Bush thinks he is royalty, the snake was a California King snake. Bush has never been to California, but he did have their electricity turned off once. He is not King.
The baby refuses to register with either political party, but did gurgle something that sounded like, "Don''t Tread on Me."
Kucinich. Dubya DumbA** is off making a fool of himself again while Europe laughs their A** off..like he matters anymore. Go home and cut some brush George Warmonger!
Posted by timdgrim at 10:00 AM : Jun 10, 2008
I know it''''s early, but the "not one article" as you say is in the upper right corner of the main page. "
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timdgrim is right, the story is there, but you can''t comment on it. It''s by Politico, not CBS, I think that''s why. Hopefully CBS will think this is newsworthy, and the White House won''t suppress it as a matter of national security.
Kucinich. Dubya DumbA** is off making a fool of himself again while Europe laughs their A** off..like he matters anymore. Go home and cut some brush George Warmonger!
Posted by timdgrim at 10:00 AM : Jun 10, 2008
Even funnier, you can take a story about a child in a crib with a snake and make it into some political forum for your psychotic obsession with politics and trying to be clever. If I see "Dubya" never again, it won''t be too soon. Get a life and mind of your own.